19 responses to “Rangers Look to Sign More SPL Players – Kyle and Stack next on List”

Paul, you did the counting a few weeks ago. How many over 19s would Kafes and these two make? Isn’t it only 21 over 19s who can be included in an SFL squad. Are Triggers Broom going to have to terminate contracts of some over 19s if they can’t sell them? Surely breach through “frustration” comes into play if they have a contracted player aged 19+ who can’t play because he isn’t in the squad because there is no room for him in the squad.

Perhaps we are truly seeing the Rise of the Phoenix here in that Green is also assemling the player pool for his English to be.

Or as one cynical poster said it’s just to generate fan interest to sell STs – we have already seen that ploy at work earlier today when tickets for Brechin were sold at Ibrox but only to ST holders. Couldn’t have been a lot of Brechin tickets then :)

However, I wonder if when Kafes moved from Olympiakos to AEK whether Olympiakos retained a sell-on clause. It would appear Kafes was out of contract at AEK but who knows what might be floating about in contract terms especially when you take into account Green’s rather strange pronouncements amounting to player serfdom despite Tupe Regs applying and then the rather strange decision on the Davis payment.

However, it will all come out in the wash as my granny used to say and don’t dare anyone ask what her age is :)

I think Greens plan all along (check his comments) has been to open the gate for the current Ibrox big earners, Bocanegra, Goian, Edu, Broadfoot and more and then pick up bargain basement journeymen (on much lesser sals) of which there are a ton out there due to this whole fiasco and financial uncertainty or propaganda as it is known from the Scottish football authorities.

Wahey. Graham Stack. Goalkeeper for Leeds United when they got relegated to League 1 and went into administration. Clearly being signed for his experience in telling the boys in the dressing room, sorry lads, the gaffer says there’s no money for wages this week.

STV reports that a condition of temporary membership of the SFA is
“signing off on the transfer of the old company’s member share in the Scottish Premier League to Dundee, which Duff & Phelps have retained despite being compelled to hand it over to the Dark Blues”.

Why make this a conditionwhen they are COMPELLED to hand it over, anyway?

However this is the first time I’ve seen menton of both the share to Dundee and the the payment of football debts. I can only admire Green for his persistence withthe dual contracts opposition to investigation. Any other club wouldn’t have seen the inside of Doncasters ffice talking like that.

‘Robbie Savage took to Twitter on Wednesday to offer his services to come out of retirement to play for Rangers for free.
‘The 37 year-old, who quit the game last summer after a spell with Derby, said: “If Rangers are struggling for players I would come out of retirement and play for nothing. [I] could do a job in Scot Div 3. It would be a privilege to play for a great club.”’

There have been a lot of things about this affair that I don’t understand and here is another.

How can a team headinf out to play in the Third Division be signing players who are easilly SPL quality. They must be offering a great deal to entice the players into the Third. This cannot be justified on Financial terms given the lower crowds and lower prices in the Third.

Savage is right ” It would be a privilege to play for a great club.”’ It really would, but unfortunately this is SEVCO. 3rd division and temporary SFA membership tells you it all.